Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems.

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